AMD has loss ago, and predicts a lower revenue. The chipbedrijf has his hope set on the Trinity apu. According to AMD, are ultraportables of 17mm thickness, which is against mainstreamprijzen may be offered.
AMD has a record year behind it with the delivery of chips for notebooks; which grew by 25 percent. Especially the Brazos platform was responsible for this and AMD speaks of the most successful platform ever for the company.
The demand for gpu’s was less than expected in AMD’s fourth quarter of 2011 and sales were negatively impacted by problems with the production of desktopprocessors on 45nm. The decrease of the gpu-deliveries is partly because manufacturers laptops less often with discrete gpu’s to rest and partly by the increased hardeschijfprijzen, which resulted in a lower demand for computers in general. On server area caused the Opteron 6200 and 4200 processors, a sales growth of more than 10 percent.
Eventually, AMD’s revenue for 2011, stable compared to 2010 and there was something to gain more profits. In the fourth quarter of 2011 was a loss of 177 million dollars ago, but this was partly due to a depreciation of 209 million dollars on the former business unit to Global Foundries.
AMD expects lower revenues in the first quarter of 2012. However, claims to be the chipbedrijf that the demand for apus remains high. “We are seeing especially strong interest in the new, fuel-efficient apus,” said Rory P. Read, ceo of AMD in the notes to the figures. With these Trinity apu’s hopes for AMD to compete with the ultrabook concept from Intel. Laptops with the chip would be 17mm thick. For comparison: Intel keeps this year to a maximum thickness of 18mm for ultrabooks. Last year it was still 20mm. According to Read addresses his company with Trinity on products with mainstreamprijzen. “Trinity is still for a release mid this year on the schedule,” he said.